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. 2014 Dec 8;16(12):e254. doi: 10.2196/jmir.3735

Table 3.

Mixed models predicting weekly changes in weight.

Predictor variables Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 4

B (SE) P B (SE) P B (SE) P B (SE) P
Fixed effects







Fixed intercept 187.1 (0.5011) <.001 187.1 (0.5011) <.001 187.1 (0.5011) <.001 187.1 (0.5011) <.001
Time –0.2817 (0.0059) <.001 –0.2817 (0.0059) <.001 –0.2817 (0.0059) <.001 –0.2816 (0.0059) <.001
Quadratic time 0.0016 (0.0000) <.001 0.0016 (0.00002) <.001 0.0016 (0.0000) <.001 0.0016 (0.0000) <.001
Word count –0.0004 (0.0002) .03 –0.0002 (0.0003) .62 –0.0001 (0.0004) .76 –0.0008 (0.0004) .07
Model 1







Health –0.0153 (0.0139) .27





Ingestion –0.0002 (0.0096) .98





Biology 0.0112 (0.0106) .29





Model 2







Positive emotion

0.0069 (0.0083) .41



Negative emotion

–0.0068 (0.0097) .48



Model 3







Social process



–0.0028 (0.0034) .40

Past-tense verbs



–0.0164 (0.0061) .007

Certainty



–0.0126 (0.0157) .42

Exclusion



0.0148 (0.0082) .07

Third-person sing



0.0202 (0.0134) .13

Model 4







Conjunction





0.0203 (0.0063) .001
Motion





–0.0191 (0.0084) .02
Past tense





–0.0109 (0.0056) .05
Random effects







Linear time 0.121 (0.003) <.001 0.121 (0.003) <.001 0.121 (0.003) <.001 0.121 (0.003) <.001
Random intercept 1994.6 (31.7) <.001 1994.5 (31.7) <.001 1994.5 (31.7) <.001 1994.5 (31.7) <.001
Residual 16.4 (0.082) <.001 16.4 (0.082) <.001 16.4 (0.082) <.001 16.4 (0.082) <.001